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Spotify is also a de facto monopoly.
by pie420 3y ago
Spotify is also a de facto monopoly.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoA monopoly of what? A few people’s podcasts?
- piva00 3y agoSpotify has ~30% of the market, Apple Music, Tencent, and Amazon have each ~13%, YouTube Music another ~9%. That's far from a monopoly...
- lotsofpulp 3y agoDidn’t even know Tencent had a music streaming service, but their numbers look amazing: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TME/tencent-music-entertainment-group/net-income https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TME/tencent-music-... I presume they don’t have to pay rent to a few big copyright holders like Spotify does.